Mary

“He'd love it at first but like anything he desired and could never attain, he would soon grow to resent it. Now he was punishing her for it.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Yolanda, by killing Selena, had ended her own life.”
― María Celeste Arrarás, Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death

“The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to make the point that they were unimportant-that they were not even men-and the world continued on.”
― Britt Bennett

“Perhaps what we modern people need most is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and where life is unstable and uncertain, immoral and unprincipled, we would know that, also, and endure it. Perhaps that is the ultimate answer to the question of why God has sent us into this time, why He permits this whirlwind to go over the earth, and why He holds us in such a state of chaos and in hopelessness and in darkness-and why there is no end in sight.”
― Alfred Delp, Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings - 1941-1944